For a few years I have been a gallery host and docent at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg museum in Auburn, IN. I now have an additional job. Dusting cars. So I get to clean a few Duesenberg A's and J's inside and out.

so cool!!!

i love that museum... want to come to the auction this Labor Day... don't know if I'll make it, but sure do want to... and for sure would visit the museum again.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K

Neat
How bout some pics?

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Jim

here's two of my favorites.

the Cord prototype.... what a beautiful automobile.

maybe nate will tell us more about it.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K

Cool cars!

Jay Leno has 8 of them, including that one off stream lined one that cost $25k!

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What a great job! Those Cord L29s had front wheel drive. Unique for its day!

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Dave
Pawleys Island, SC

'79 300CD

What a dream job!

Had a friend years back in Montana, owned Tucker #11. Got to turn some wrenches on that bad boy! Lost touch with him a long time ago, but I believe he still owns it. Guess it's not quite a Cord or Duesy, but I guess it'll have to do till one comes along!!

Which auction? There are now 3 auction parks and the museum has their own auction.

That is the E1 prototype. Fred Duesenberg had much input. Erret Cord wanted a V16. Fred convinced him a V12 would do the job. The E1 was build in 1932. EL Cord wanted a car bigger than the Duesenberg J. But they could not sell Deusenberg J chassis so Cord ordered Fred to destroy the E1. Fred could not bring himself to do it. Rather he disassembled the car and put it in storage in pieces. The E1 is @$#%@$% long!!!! As a side note....you will see Duesnberg J's from 1929-1937. The 485 +/- chassis were all built in 1929. It just took that long to sell a $8500+ chassis without body.

The museum owns 3 model J's and has 2 model A's on loan. The model A is VERY significant itself. There is also a Model X on loan. Only 13 X's were made. Also have the only Model Y prototype on loan. Come and see the Model J engine on stand. It looks enormous, but when you look at it from the end you see the economy of material. Fred Duesenburg was a genius on a bad day. When you see a Duesenburg engine it makes you wonder why we are not more advanced today.

I think they are the best cars in the world, still to this day.

A guess a modern equivalent would be a Veyron?

The super charged Duesenburg straight 8 was the most powerful production engine for what 25 years?

I think its hard today for people to understand how much of a leap they were, since nothing comparable really exists today.

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Didn't know that. I was there last Labor Day so was thinking of the one just south of Auburn along I69. I think it's now owned by RM Auctions.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K

Hope it's OK to upload the pictures I took at the museum.

Ignore the grumpy guy standing in front of the 300SL. He was bummed out after the museum told him he couldn't take it home!!!

Unbelievably I didn't take any pictures of a 810 or 812. I was so caught up with the early 30s cars.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K

Here's more.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K

And one more.

That's all I took.

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R Martin
Dallas, TX (Addison)

86 560SEL, 128K